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Almanac - Wednesday April 19, 2023

Transporting bananas with bicycle in Uganda
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Transporting bananas with bicycle in Uganda

Today is Wednesday, the 19th of April of 2023

April 19 is the 109th day of the year

256 days remain until the end of the year.

64 days until summer begins

The sun rose this morning at 6:28:50 am

and sunset will be at 7:50:00 pm.

Water temperature in San Francisco Bay today is 55.9°F

We will have 13 hours and 21 minutes of daylight

Solar noon will be at 1:09:25 pm.

The first low tide was at 5:00 am at -0.17 feet

The first high tide will be at 11:16 am at 5.06 feet

The next low tide at 4:54 pm at 0.89 feet

and the final high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 11:09 pm at 6.12 feet

The moon is currently 0.5% visible

It’s a New Moon

It will be 0% visible tonight 19th at 9:12 pm

We’ll also have a Hybrid Solar Eclipse

Today is…

Bicycle Day

Humorous Day

John Parker Day

National Amaretto Day

National Banana Day

National Garlic Day

National Hanging Out Day

National Stress Awareness Day

National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day

Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day

Rice Ball Day

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…

1903Eliot Ness, American law enforcement agent (d. 1957)

1933Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress (d. 1967)

1934Dickie Goodman, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1989)

1935Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, and pianist (d. 2002)

1937 – Joseph Estrada, Filipino politician, 13th President of the Philippines

1946Tim Curry, English actor and singer

1965Suge Knight, American record executive

1968Ashley Judd, American actress

1978James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1979Kate Hudson, American actress

1982 – Ali Wong, American comedian and actress

…and on this day in history…

1927Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.

1943 – World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.

1943 – Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.

1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.

1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

1987The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night".

2021 – The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.

Kevin Vance created a program of folk music for KALW, A Patchwork Quilt, in October 1991. He grew up in Berkeley during the 1960s and '70s and spent his years learning in public schools, community colleges, bookstores, libraries, and non-commercial radio stations, as well as from the people around him. When he's not on the radio, then he's selling books, taking care of his family, listening to music, entering stuff into a computer, or taking a class.